What is rehabilitation?
An example of a rehabilitation program: COPSI (Community care for People with Schizophrenia in India) The COPSI project was a randomized controlled trial comparing the clinical and cost effectiveness of facility-based (usual) care and a collaborative community-based care intervention for people with schizophrenia in three sites in India. The community intervention was developed by a team comprising the treating psychiatrist, the intervention coordinator and lay community health workers (CHWs) and the majority of the service was delivered in home settings. A package of evidence based treatments was been selected for the community intervention that can be delivered by CHWs with adequate training and close supervision.
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In mainstream psychiatry it is underestimated how much persons with psychosis suffer from trauma’s. And also how they are traumatized again through experience in the psychiatric system. And if there is trauma, clinicians think that it is harmful to talk about it. This seems not to be the case, on the contrary. Here you see some links to general methods of trauma therapy which also works for psychosis
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The three core MICST group activities include:
- Body movement-mindfulness-relaxation (BMR);
- Cognitive stimulation using group discussions;
- Cognitive stimulation using paper-pencil cognitive exercises and self-reflection exercises.
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How to do it
Read his book Hallucination-focused Integrative Therapy: A Specific Treatment that Hits Auditory Verbal Hallucinations
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A handout
Training Our Minds in, with and for Compassion, An Introduction to Concepts and Compassion-Focused Exercises, Written by Paul Gilbert PhD
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